Now that price of Steem has gone up a lot, and Steemit is getting some media attention, it might very well be that Steemit start to suck in more quality content producers (writers, bloggers, vloggers, etc.). It makes sense to use this platform, because you get encouraged to write quality posts etc. You are not just making money for the traditional platform (add-revenue etc.).
I have been interested in Bitcoin since 2011. I'm normally against "app-coins". Normally it makes more sense to just use bitcoin, but I'm wondering if Steemit is a special case. Here you "mine" Steems by producing quality content. That makes sense. I predict this price rise was just a beginning - really. This could become something big.
The only question is: why would anyone buy Steem? Speculation of course is the main driver but what is the incentive to use Steems?
Congrats to Steemit-team and community. We might be in a verge of potential mind-blowing success!